The weekly messenger., 1887-11-05

saying: Tome unto me, all We who are weary
and heavy laden, and will give Won rest.
Again there is field of usefulness but
little touched occupied by those who are
astray in their habits All northern ma
tions. like those of North America and Eng
land and Scotland, that is in the colder
climates. are devastated by alcohol
ism. They take the fire to keep up
the warmth. In southern countries like
Arabia and Spain, the blood is so they are
not tempted to fiery liquids The great Ro-
man armies never drank anything stronger
than water tlnged with vinegar. but under
our northern climate the temptation to heat
ing stimulants is most mighty. and millions
succumb. When a mans habits go wrong
the church drops him, the social circle drops
him, good influences drop him. we all drop
him. OF all the men who get OFF the track but
few ever get on again. Near nv summer
residence there is a life saving station on the
beach. There are all the ropes and rockets
the boats, the machinery for getting people
off shipwreckS Summer before last I saw
there fifteen or twenty men WHO were break
fasting, after having Just escaped with their
lives and nothing more. Up and down our
coasts are built these useful structures. and
the mariners know it. and they feel that il
they are driven into the breakers there will
be apt from shore to come a rescue. The
churches of God ought to be SO many life saw
ing stations. not so much to help those who
arein smooth waters. but those who have been
shlpwrecked. Come, let us run out the life
boats. And who will man them. We do not
preach enough TO such men; we have not
enough faith in their release. Alas. If when
they come to hear us we are laboriOusy try
ing to show the difference between sublap-
sarianism and supralaprarianism while they
have thousand vipers OF remorse and de-
spair coiling around and bitng their immortal
spirits. The church is not chiefly for goodsh
scrt of men whose procliv tiles are all right,
AMI who could get to heaven praying and
singing in their own hom :. 1t is on the
cases are the cases that God likes
to take hold of. H, can save a
big sinner as well as Il small sinner
and when man calls earnestly to God for
help he viii go out to deliver s1ch one If
lt were necessary God would come down
from the sky, followed by all the artillery of
heaven and l,OO0. 900 angels with drawn
swords Get 700 such redeemed men in each
of Your churches, and nothing could stand
before them, ,forsucf men are generally warm
hearted and enthusiastic. No formal PRAYERS
then. NO heartleSs singing then. No cold
Furthermore. the destitute children of the
street offer a field of work comparatively un-
occupied. The uncared for children are in
the majority in Brooklyn and most of our
rites. When they grow up, if unreformed
hey will outvote yoyr children. and they will
y
match out other whisky rings. and yrog
shops Will Kill with their horrid stencil public
'obriety. unless the church of God rises I'M
With outstretche arms and enfolds this diving
in her bosom. Public schools cam
lot do it. Art galleries cannot do il. .RIack-
wells Island cannot do it, Almshouses can
lot do 1t. New York Tombs and RAYMOND
street jail cannot dOit. Sing Sing cannot
10 1t. Church of God, wake mp to Your mag
lliicent mission. You can do it. Get some-
where. somehow to work
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
heir right foot into the stirrup. while the
American cavalrymen mount by putting
heir lett foot into the stirrup. don't care
low You mount your war charger If Won
My get into this battle for God and get there
oon, right stirrup, or left stirrup. or
10 stirrup at all The unoccupie,l fields
re all around Ills, and why sbouId
We build on another mans foundationi
hat God has called this church To
special work no one can doubt. Its his
ory has been miraculous. God has helped us
t every step, and though the wheels Of its
sstory have msie MANY revolutions. rney
ave all been Forwarded, and never backward,
nd now with our borders enlarged and with
important re-enforcements we start on q new
At Sharon Springs, nineteen
ears ago, walking in thepsrk, Iasked God, if
e had any particular work for me to do, to
make it plain and would do it, He revealed
o me she style of church we were to have an
e revealed to me the architecture, and he re-
ealed to me the modes of worship, and he
evealed to rae my work and, as faI, as in my
ignorance and weakness have seen the right
say' have tried to walk in it.
orl saving church, and it has been
lmost a constant Outpouring Of the HOLY
ihost. fe powers of darkness. ye devils in
ell, we mean 70 snatch from your dominion
ther mllltitudes, If God will helpus have
card of what was called the ''thundering
egion.' Ii was in I'D part OF the Roman
rmy to which some Christians belonged,
nd their prayers, it was said, were an
wered by thunder and lightning and hail
md tempest, which overthrew an invading
'rmy and saved the empire. AMI [ would